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I am an assistant professor of political science at the University of Connecticut. My research interests lie in the political economy of transition and emerging economies. My current research focuses on land property rights and their impact on rural governance and development in China. I received my Ph.D. in political science and M.Sc in agricultural and applied economics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Prior to joining UConn, I was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard's Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies.

Originally
from China, I received my B.A. in public administration at the University of Science
and Technology, Beijing. Immediately following my graduation from college, I attended the University of
Toronto, where I earned an M.A. in political science with an Asia Pacific area focus. Between graduate studies in Canada and in the US, I worked at the
China Development and Research Foundation, a government think tank initiated by
the Development and Research Center of the State Council in China.